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CABOTVILLE CACAO 531 China. One of the two ships was frozen up in a Lapland harbor, and all the persons on board perished with cold ; the other discovered Archangel, and opened a commerce between England and Russia. On Sept. 9, 1553, soon after the accession of Queen Mary, the empe- ror Charles V., through his ambassador, again and very earnestly made request that Sebastian Cabot should be sent back to his service; of so much importance did he seem even then in his great old age.' But Cabot refused to leave England. A new company was formed for dis- covery on Feb. 23, 1556, of which he was a partner and the president. On Monday, April 27, 1556, accompanied by divers gentlemen and gentlewomen, he went on board the pin- nace the Serch Thrift, which was on the eve of sailing, and distributed most liberal alms ; then going on shore, he and his friends gave a banquet to the ship's company, and for very joy at the forwardness of the intended dis- covery the octogenarian cosmographer entered into the dance himself. At parting, he com- mended the ship's company to the governance of Almighty God. On May 27, 1557, he re- signed his pension, and on the 29th of the same month he received a new grant of it under a different form. These are the last authentic notices of Sebastian Cabot, one of the most remarkable men of his age. "Where he died is not certain, though it was probably in Lon- don ; the precise time of his death is also un- known, and no one can tell his burial place. The best work on Sebastian Cabot is the me- moir by Richard Biddle (Philadelphia, 1831), but further materials have been contributed by Rawdon Brown, and by Varnhagen in his ffiatoria do Brazil. One of his maps has lately been found in Germany, and has been published by Jomard at Paris in the Monu- ments de la geographie. In preparing the present article, some unpublished manuscripts have also been used. CABOTVILLE. See CHIOOPBE. t 1 Mill (anc. JEgabrum), a town of Andalusia, Spain, in the province and 30 m. S. S. E. of Cordova; pop. about 12,000. It lies between two hills, upon a river of the same name, and contains a Dominican convent, cathedral, col- lege, hospital, 'and theatre. Near by are min- eral springs, the crater of an extinct volcano, and the fine grotto of Jarcas. There are man- ufactories of tiles, linen, and woollen, and an annual fair held in September. CABRAL, Krantisro, a Portuguese missionary, born at Covilhao in 1528, died in Goa, India, April 16, 1609. At the age of 26 years he became a Jesuit, and was afterward appointed professor of philosophy and theology at Goa, and superintendent of the Jesuit schools in India. He proceeded thence to Japan, where he made many converts, and also had direc- tion of the missions in China. Returning to Goa, he was for 38 years superior of the Ro- man Catholic educational establishment in that place. A series of letters from him may be found in the Literce Annwe of the society of Jesuits. CABRAL, Pedro Alvarez de, a Portuguese navi- gator, died about 1526. In March, 1500, he was placed in command of the expedition of 15 vessels fitted out by Emanuel, king of Portu- gal, after the discovery of the route to India around the Cape of Good Hope by Vasco da Gama. After passing the Canaries he was carried so far to the west that he reached the coast of Brazil, arriving a few months after its first discovery by Pinzon, the companion of Columbus. He took possession of the country in the name of the king of Portugal, and sent home a vessel to announce his discovery. He then continued his voyage for India by way of the Cape of Good Hope ; but before reaching the cape he encountered a severe storm and lost four of his vessels. Cabral stopped at Mozambique for repairs, and sailed thence with only six vessels. He visited several points of India, among which was Calicut, where he established a factory, and returned to Lisbon in July, 1501, with valuable cargoes of Indian merchandise. No further mention ia made of him in history. CABRERA, Ramon, count of Morella, a Spanish general, born at Tortosa in Catalonia, Aug. 31, 1810. When civil war broke out in 1833, after the death of Ferdinand VII., between the partisans of his brother Don Carlos and Queen Isabella II., Cabrera joined the Carlists at the head of a small band of guerillas, and made himself remarkable both by his valor and cruelty. His zeal for the Carlist cause, which he considered that of the church, became fero- city when, in 1836, his mother was put to death by Agustin Nogueras, one of the queen's gene- rals. In revenge he laid waste Aragon, Va- lencia, and Andalusia, and showed no mercy to the Christinists who fell into his hands. Hav- ing taken the fortress of Morella, he was in 1838 made by Don Carlos lieutenant general and count of Morella, and continued the struggle even after Maroto's surrender to Espartero at Vergara, but was finally compelled to escape to France (July 6, 1840), where he was arrested and imprisoned for a short time. Although in 1845 he opposed the abdication of Don Carlos in favor of his son, the count de Montemolin, he accompanied the count to London in Sep- tember, 1846, and endeavored without success to create an interest in his favor. After the French revolution of 1848 he landed in Cata- lonia, and was defeated and severely wounded at Pasteral, Jan. 27, 1849. Escaping once more to France, he went thence to England. In the interest of the Carlists he visited Naples in July, 1850, with his wife, an English woman, but was expelled, and has since lived in retirement. CACAO, a tree of the genus theobroma, be- longing to the natural order sterculiacea, the seeds or beans of which furnish the cocoa of commerce. It is called by the Mexicans choeo- lat, from which comes the English chocolate. It is indigenous in Central and South Ameri-